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I Pray
Help me now, God
Your angels are calling.
Help me now, God
Your creations are cruel.
It was You who made them,
in the palm of your hand.
It was You who cast the devil
upon this sin infested land.
War, famine, rape and sickness;
hideous gifts you've so plentifully
given.
Why pray for you to condemn
in something that you’ve willed?
Why grace you for the soil
that our flesh and rot has filled?
I Pray,
not to be welcomed at the gates of your kingdom.
Nor for You
do I drink - The Saviour’s
Red Blood.
I Pray
not to You, for the souls you’ve
given.
Nor for you
was I on my knees when they'd gone.
I Pray only to condemn
the life in me you’ve built.
I Pray
for my string
to be cut from the morning’s quilt.
I ask of Atropos
to cease the spinning of my
thread.
And of The Moirai
so divine,
for my fate to be spun
Dead.
So listen to my cries,
my God fearing worship:
Take me now, God
Your angels are falling.
Take me now, God
For your world is cruel.
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The Moirai are three sisters in greek mythology who spin the threads of human destiny. One spins the thread of our fate in life, another determines our life span, and the third one - who's name is Atropos (the one I reference) cuts the thread thus ending our life.
This piece is about my feelings of resentment towards God. I'm not religious but I've made it a habit to take my grief about the state of the world out on a God others believe to have created it.
I respect all peaceful religions, but i'll never understand how others perceive his will to be love.